Today’s Pattern Story: Simplicity 4574

by Erin on March 11, 2012

Amelia had promised her mother that she'd retire her "bitch, please" face, but, upon hearing that Helen actually believed that Robert would be proposing that afternoon (in a hot-air balloon, no less!), no other expression would do.

"Not since the great deviled-egg crisis of the summer of '49 have so many people been so wrong about so much," Amelia thought. Robert might be proposing something in a hot-air balloon this afternoon, but it wouldn't be marriage, and it wouldn't be to Helen. If only Amelia could get the blueprints in time!

Alas, once again I am thwarted by the difference between vintage size 14 and modern size 14. My hips are a good nine inches larger than the pattern, just for starters, and I don’t want to even think about the heavy duty shapewear I’d need to fit into it.